The formation of substellar objects induced by the collision of protostellar disks

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Lin, DNC
Laughlin, G
Bodenheimer, P
Rózyczka, M
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[1] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Astron, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[2] Univ Calif Santa Cruz, Lick Observ, Board Studies Astron & Astrophys, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA
[3] Nicholas Copernicus Astron Ctr, PL-00716 Warsaw, Poland
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10.1126/science.281.5385.2025
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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Simulations of a close encounter between two protostars, each surrounded by a relatively massive disk, resulted in the ejection of some of the disk material into a tidal tail. A portion of the tail condensed into an object with a mass in the range of 5 to 10 jovian masses. This mechanism may explain the existence of the single objects of substellar mass that have recently been discovered.
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